Last night, I wrote about how Ford and Nissan EV sales collapsed in the US in 2025. Tesla sales also weren’t good, and the overall US EV market is clearly down following the ending if the $7,500 US EV tax credit. So, I was quite surprised to see that the ... [continued]

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Continuing the trend for the US EV market, Nissan’s EV sales almost completely collapsed in the first quarter year over year. The Nissan LEAF, which should be selling like hotcakes given how much value for money it now offers, achieved only 668 US sales last quarter, down 71.2% from the ... [continued]

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Unsurprisingly, given what we’ve seen from the company in recent months, Ford’s EV business took a big hit in the first quarter year over year in the United States. The company’s best selling electric vehicle, the Mustang Mach-E, is still a great buy — but it’s harder getting consumers to ... [continued]

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Rivian ended up delivering 10,365 vehicles to customers in the first quarter of 2026. That was around 700 units above Wall Street estimates (9,678 according to Visible Alpha). Still, naturally, 10,365 vehicle sales in one quarter is very niche. For comparison, in a very down month for Tesla, one of ... [continued]

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Yet again, BYD didn’t have a great month last month when it comes to passenger vehicle sales. Perhaps that’s because consumers were waiting for the latest and greatest BYD products and thus held off on buying new vehicles for another month or so. Or perhaps it’s just not a good ... [continued]

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Continuing its 2026 trend, BYD had another down month in terms of year-over-year vehicle sales. Only one segment of its vehicle sales saw growth (and it was significant growth). To start with, let’s jump into the passenger vehicle sales. Note that for each chart or graph, I’m including a static ... [continued]

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Tesla delivered just 358,023 vehicles in the 1st quarter, which was a 6.3% increase over Q1 2025, but was also the second worst quarter for the company since Q3 2022. Meanwhile, the company produced 408,386 vehicles. Let’s take a little closer look at the vehicle deliveries, including some estimates on ... [continued]

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If you’ve been following Tesla for a fairly long time, you’re probably familiar with the “two weeks” meme. Several years ago, Elon Musk kept promising that a notable Full Self Driving update would be coming in two weeks, and then kept not delivering and saying again that it was just ... [continued]

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While some other EV automakers have had a hard — or very hard — start to the year, NIO was absolutely popping in March. The company scored 35,486 deliveries in March, which was a whopping 136% increase year over year. Compared to February, it was a 70.6% increase. Note that ... [continued]

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XPENG’s 2026 vehicle deliveries continue to be notably lower than a year before. Though, this month, they at least grew significantly compared to the month before. With 27,415 deliveries in March, XPENG’s vehicle sales were down 17.44% compared to March 2025 (33,205 deliveries), but they were up 79.7% compared to ... [continued]

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Vision, commitment, sustainability, leadership — this has been the ISEA way for four decades. As part of its fundraising activities to help advance solar energy in Illinois, the Illinois Solar Education Association (ISEA) has also been raffling off electric vehicles for years. This year, it’s all about Rivian — winners ... [continued]

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Another week has flown by, and it’s time to review and reflect on the top cleantech stories of the week. Here’s a hint: it’s about batteries, batteries, batteries. And also a bit of solar, a bit of fossil fuel war, and a bit of EV stuff. Let’s take a stroll. ... [continued]

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NIO’s recent sales growth has continued in 2026. After a long period of slow growth, in August of last year, NIO’s sales jumped up tremendously. Then sales continued to growth throughout the rest of the year. But what about January, with other Chinese EV makers struggling to get rolling this ... [continued]

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XPENG had a long run of huge sales growth in the past year or two. In January 2025, for example, sales reached 30,350 units, which was a 268% increase over the 8,250 sales of January 2024. However, by December, that growth has slowed down, and 2026 is not kicking off ... [continued]

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NIO’s recent sales growth has continued in 2026. After a long period of slow growth, in August of last year, NIO’s sales jumped up tremendously. Then sales continued to growth throughout the rest of the year. But what about January, with other Chinese EV makers struggling to get rolling this ... [continued]

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XPENG had a long run of huge sales growth in the past year or two. In January 2025, for example, sales reached 30,350 units, which was a 268% increase over the 8,250 sales of January 2024. However, by December, that growth has slowed down, and 2026 is not kicking off ... [continued]

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American Automobile Labeling Act reports show that the 2026 vehicle models with the biggest gains in domestic content — US and Canadian content, that is — are electric vehicle models. Experts indicate that is most likely due to policies put in place during the Biden presidency. Subsidies were implemented as ... [continued]

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American Automobile Labeling Act reports show that the 2026 vehicle models with the biggest gains in domestic content — US and Canadian content, that is — are electric vehicle models. Experts indicate that is most likely due to policies put in place during the Biden presidency. Subsidies were implemented as ... [continued]

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A Waymo robotaxi in California hit a child, a 10-year-old girl, this week. That headline is, naturally, going to get people’s blood boiling and fears soaring. But it’s quite important to look at the details before jumping to conclusions. So, the young girl apparently ran into the road after being ... [continued]

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A week ago, one of our writers who owns a Tesla Model 3 (like myself) wrote an article about potentially trading it in for a new Tesla. His article compared his 2019 Model 3 with a new Model Y and examined what would be better and what would be worse. ... [continued]

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